ultrasupergenius’ journal

iPods and snowboarding go really well together. I gave some jungle tracks a shot at hitting the spot - but I cannot even fall at a breakneck jungle pace, much less ride in a controlled manner. The tunes that got me down in style were a Beastie Boys/ Moby compilation whose name eludes me at the moment, and several songs by the notorious Dick Dale (surf rock legend). The only downfall is that you realize just how short the runs are around here… The first several times down, I would choose my next song on the chair lift up, pause it, and then start playing once I was ready to go down… I would really only get about 30-45 seconds into the song by the time I was at the bottom of the hill. Depressing. So I started listening to the song on the chair lift, and while I was strapping in. It didn’t make the ride down any longer, but it seemed longer at the bottom when the song was further along.
I should also mention that the conditions were some of the best I have ever seen on the East Coast - nice base and no icy patches beneath. Aside from how short the runs are, White Tail scored some major points for how close it is to the DC area - just about an hour and a half away.

The snow is coming. According to the last news story - this storm ranks a 7 on the 1 - 10 Bread-o-meter… What is the Bread-o-meter you may ask? Well apparently, that is the ‘how important is it that I run out now and buy some bread… maybe some milk…’ o’meter. Certainly a family broadcast. I am sure that if Spike TV were to report on local snowfall, they would have the pizza and beer o’meter. HBO would have a rasinettes and microwave popcorn o’meter… The Food Network would no doubt have a Fois Gras, Wine and Cavier o’meter… and of course Fox News would have a battery o’meter (make sure that you have enough betteries in your remote that you can change the channel - those republican bastards). So what is your O’meter? What is the essential thing that you would use to measure the ferocity of a snow storm. Lemme know.

So you drink a lot of wine? And you haven’t gotten around to taking out the recycling lately? What is your Problem?!? Actually, your problem just may be my solution. Here is the dillio: I have no less than three batches of wine just about ready to come out of fermentation and get bottled in the next couple of weeks… an Australian Cabernet Shiraz, a Sauvignon Blanc, and my very first berry wine - Blackberry. I have a grand total of about 28 empty bottles to put that wine into. I need closer to 90. So if anyone is sitting on the motherload of empty wine bottles and would like to get them off their hands - please please please let me know. Deals can be struck. Arrangements can be made. I can also dress up ninja-style and show up like a thief in the night, and steal your bottles from you, if you are looking for a thrill. (But in all honesty I would just be tying a black t-shirt around my face ‘little kid style’ to look like a ninja - so keep the lights dim - cause there is nothing quite so thrill-killing as seeing a Hanes label sticking out from your would be ninja assasin’s head cover thingy). And should someone have nothing but full wine bottles sitting around - I could even be convinced to come over and help you empty them… I am sure that in no time at all, we will both have t-shirts tyed around our heads, and can give your neighbors the thrill of their lives as we sneak into the night to steal their wine bottles (same restriction applies on dim lights as per Hanes labels). So get out your empties, and get out your fulls, and get out your black t-shirts. Ultrasupergenius winery is looking for a few good bottles, and a six-pack or so of would be ninja assasins.

Hooray! I love the snow, for lots of reasons… Today was a perfect example of one specific reason: Driving amoungst the snow snakes. Those crazy, racy, twisting turning and disappearing only to reappear a second later creatures that slither around the roads chasing cars in the snow. I guess they are the result of air currents whipping up the snow as cars go by… whatever. They are alive - if only for an instant. On my way in to work, I saw the most snow snakes I have ever seen before, and some of the most active and beautiful ones to boot. The cold, dry conditions, combined with the fact that there was just the perfect amount of snow on the road, made for the greatest snow snake watching I have ever experienced. And although I got a late start at work (I could not bring myself to pull in to the office and park - I kept making ‘just one more run around the neighborhood’ watching them), it was well worth it. Far too often on the East Coast, the roads are salted and sanded before the first flakes drop - and the melting slush of snow, salt and sand is none too kind on the snow snakes. I looked out the window here at the office a short while ago, and I can see that the slush is firmly upon us, the snakes have had their party and dispersed. I hope that some of you got a chance to play with them. And I hope that they come back soon. And thank you, my dearest snow snakes, for a wonderful day.

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